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No. It's like saying that I want cars to be open source, so I make an engine that can be used only in OS cars, helping the OS community. Take GCC. The fact tha
by greenhouse_gas 10y ago
No. It's like saying that I want cars to be open source, so I make an engine that can be used only in OS cars, helping the OS community.
Take GCC. The fact that GCC was GPL'd made Objective-C open source.
One can arguably say that Linux's GPL base is what makes custom ROMs (and all the cool stuff they brought to stock android) possible.
On the other hand, BSD was under a permissive license. How many Operating Systems leech of it and don't give back?